If you want to hear the song of the wood thrush or the bobolink—two birds whose songs figure prominently in In Hovering Flight—check the Sound and Video Archive here. National Audubon Society www.doorway.ru You can use the interactive map under “States, Centers, and Chapters” to find a local Audubon center or chapter near you. · “In hovering flight” is actually a phrase from Roger Tory Peterson’s description of the song of the bobolink in the fifth edition of his Birds of Eastern and Central North America (“Song, in hovering flight and quivering descent, ecstatic and bubbling, starting with low, reedy notes and rollicking upward”); these are lines that Scarlet, who grows up to be a poet, uses when she tries to convince her Estimated Reading Time: 8 mins. “I loved Joyce Hinnefeld’s debut novel In Hovering Flight so much that I’m at a loss for the right words to adequately portray it. How to describe this unusual novel that is part field notes of a radical environmentalist, part ornithology lecture (complete with beautiful Latin names for birds like Zenaida Macroura, more commonly known as Mourning Dove), part unconventional love story, and part /5(13).

In Hovering Flight - Kindle edition by Hinnefeld, Joyce. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading In Hovering Flight. Find many great new used options and get the best deals for In Hovering Flight by Joyce Hinnefeld (, Trade Paperback) at the best online prices at eBay! Free shipping for many products! She is the author of the novels In Hovering Flight () and Stranger Here Below (). In the spring of , Dr. Hinnefeld received the Christian R. and Mary F. Lindback Foundation Award for Distinguished Teaching, and she serves as the faculty advisor to The Manuscript, Moravian's student literary magazine.

“In hovering flight” is actually a phrase from Roger Tory Peterson’s description of the song of the bobolink in the fifth edition of his Birds of Eastern and Central North America (“Song, in hovering flight and quivering descent, ecstatic and bubbling, starting with low, reedy notes and rollicking upward”); these are lines that Scarlet, who grows up to be a poet, uses when she tries to convince her father that words are necessary to capture the beauty of bird song. But these days. Joyce Hinnefeld was born in southern Indiana, the youngest of four children. Her father was a high school science teacher, her mother a secretary and homemaker. She graduated from Hanover College in Hanover, Indiana in , and attended graduate school at Northwestern University and at the State University of New York at Albany. Author Joyce Hinnefeld has published both fiction and nonfiction in a number of print and online journals. Her novel In Hovering Flight was the #1 IndieNext Selection for September , and her short story collection, Tell Me Everything and Other Stories--called 'a beautiful and wise collection, with no wasted words' by judge Joanna Scott--received the Bread Loaf Writers Conference Bakeless Prize in Fiction.